But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. | But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you. |
When I thought, “My foot is slipping,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. | When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up. |
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Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble. | Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble. |
No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. | Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. |
Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. | My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. |
Love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor. | In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another. |
I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent. | As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent. |
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. | Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness. |
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love. | With all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love. |
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. | By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. |
And steadfast love belongs to you, O Lord. For you repay to all according to their work. | Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work. |
O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever. | Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. |
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you. | For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you. |
For your steadfast love is as high as the heavens; your faithfulness extends to the clouds. | For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies. |
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. | For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. |
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits. | Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit. |
Truly the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love. | Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness. |
Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. | Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection. |
Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband. | Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband. |
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ. | May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and into the perseverance of Christ. |
And ‘to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength,’ and ‘to love one's neighbor as oneself,’—this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. | And to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. |
For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” | For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” |
But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ. | But speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ. |
Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind. | Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous. |
We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. | By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. |